Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

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Dot Matrix Building

Published April 27, 2006

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Tetris on a Tower Block

Published April 27, 2006

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They Rule + Greenpeace = Exposed ExxonMobil Secrets

Published April 18, 2006

The secret’s out. Climate sceptics being funded by ExxonMobil can no longer hide behind the name of a front group. A new website – www.exxonsecrets.org – exposes the links between ExxonMobil money and the

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Code Flinging Warriors

Published March 24, 2006

1. Two web artists (net.legends) will face-off in a ring to alter a web page – the cyber-ring — live. The resulting changes will be seen by the public on a screen and by

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I/O Brush: Photographic paintbrush that paints with movement and colour

Published March 14, 2006

I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has

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Flickeur – create a unique film with a click

Published February 28, 2006

Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. I’m intrigued by this, think about it for a

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Transformers take over Uxbridge

Published February 27, 2006

Chris Rose, designer, has remixed a series of photos of London’s Brunel Universities Uxbridge Campus. See all the photos here. Via Boing

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Dr.D Coldplay diagnosis at Brit Awards

Published February 21, 2006

“This evening at 10:00 pm dr.d hit a billboard bang opposite the Brit awards, the British music industry’s annual self-congratulatory love-fest. For all their talk of fair trade, presumably Chris Martin and the other

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SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network

Published February 14, 2006

The SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (formerly AI to the People) project asks the question: If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other

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Erwin Wurm exhibits me

Published January 24, 2006

Went and saw the Erwin Wurm: Glue Your Brain exhibition at the MCA Sydney on Saturday morning, with my good friend Melissa. Not only did we laugh and contemplate the humour and

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Urban Chaos >> Manipulative Grafitti

Published January 4, 2006

Look I know I should be writing my own impression of the stuff that inspires me, but I’m still in holiday mode – forgive. So, there’s a kid called Piero who’s incredibly cool…so cool that

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Greyworlds Urban Sketches

Published December 21, 2005

“Greyworld’s Urban Sketches installation (click gallery/new media) is an interactive work that makes the space and its inhabitants both the subject of the work and its authors. A hidden camera records the space and its

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Transparent Billboards

Published December 19, 2005

So I’m checking out Neural.it, and follow a link to the Billboard Liberation Front and found this inspiring photography project by Kasia Kesicka. It mimics the flickr pool on transparent screens but is nonetheless

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Interactive Mechanical Mirrors

Published December 19, 2005

The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical

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Safe Bedside Table or a journey to the Dark Side

Published December 16, 2005

It is reported that 50% of people in London are worried about security and sleep with some form of self-defence to hand, for use against intruders. Doesn’t fear turn to anger, anger turn to hate

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